Justice Nicholas Oweibo struck out the matter after Ubani withdrew the case as events had overtaken the reliefs sought and COVID-19 pandemic was over and the Federal Government had jettisoned the idea of compulsory vaccination for civil servants.
Ubani had on December 22, 2021, filed the case before the court in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1951/2021, following the directive of the Federal Government that all federal civil servants should be compulsorily vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus in 2020. The respondents in the suit were the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Federal Government.
The reliefs he sought among others from the court were a declaration that the directive given by the first respondent to civil servants in Nigeria to the effect that with effect from December 1, 2021 they should show proof of vaccination or present a negative COVID-19 PCR test result done within 72 hours before they could gain access to their various offices within Nigeria and missions abroad, was unconstitutional, having violated the constitutional rights of Nigerian civil servants to life,...
However, the matter was assigned to Justice Oweibo and the Federal Government through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation filed a counter affidavit to the suit on February 28, 2022, wherein it denied any plan to embark on compulsory vaccination of civil servants as contemplated by the plaintiff.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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